All posts by Guest Contributor
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Never Be Situation Unaware
“On a warm spring night, after eating dinner with friends and deciding to do a little late-night dancing, a young lady walks across the top...
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Running Pain: When to Stop and When to Make Your Way Through
Running is a vigorous activity which brings many benefits and some problems. Each runner has experienced pain and muscle soreness. Sometimes, the runner encounters these...
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How to Make A Survival Stove with Two Soda Cans
Alcohol stoves use denatured alcohol for fuel and are very common with ultralight backpackers because of the huge weight savings. You can pay a pretty...
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10 Staples That Should Always Be In Your Bug Out Bag
Natural and man-made disasters happen often without warning. Hurricanes, blackouts, terrorist attacks — you name it, anything could happen in a blink of an eye....
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Planning For the Unexpected – Choosing and Wearing the Right Footwear Everyday
In a high percentage of survival situations; you might argue all of them, clothing is a major component. For your Bug Out Bag we generally...
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Beyond the Bug Out Bag
Before I start this article, I want to make it plain that I am not a combat trained individual, at least in a military sense....
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How Prepared Are You?
The Prepping Community’s most active discussion revolves around preparing for disasters. Not that disasters or zombies are our only focus. The broader topic of prepping...
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How to use a compass and a map
Most preppers are familiar with this concept, but have you ever really tried to navigate to a point using only a compass and a topographic...
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Introduction to Gunsmithing – Part 2
In the previous article, we discussed what gunsmithing is, and saw that it had three components, tools, knowledge and skills. We started out by looking...
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Introduction to Gunsmithing – Part I
What is “Gunsmithing”? It is the process of repairing or modifying firearms. You can do it on your own firearms without any problem, and you...
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DRY FIRE: The Secret to Better Shooting
Guns and ammo are undoubtedly at the top of the list when it comes to many preppers’ inventory. Lots of us in the prepper or...
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Vehicle Security Basics for Survival in Bad Times
Wherever you are working or living at some point you will have to use vehicles, for most people they are part of their everyday lives....
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Plan To Survive: The Tactics Of Living
When you read the various Prepper and Survival blogs and comments on Prepping, it’s hard to avoid the constant chatter about guns and defensive warfare…...
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10 Medical Resources You Can Get from Nature
Your list of home remedies is about to get even more interesting and spicier. Although these natural herbs are have been used hundreds of years,...
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Top 9 Reasons Why You Need a Revolver for Self-Defense
Packing heat is always a good idea because you never know what this world is going to throw at you next. Revolvers make an excellent...
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Preppers Always Have a Plan in Place
If your community gets hit by a disaster, like a hurricane, flood, radiological release, or even an earthquake, how would you and your family fare?...
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What to Look for in a Survival Retreat
Prepping in some cases is about taking proactive steps to avoid or mitigate the risk of danger. Usually when we think of prepping nirvana the...
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10 Food Ideas for Your Bug Out Bag
Bug Out Bags come with their own set of problems just as complex in some cases as the myriad of reasons why you could be...
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Tips for Starting an Aquaponics Garden
Increasingly, people are looking for ways to have more control over the source of their food. They are also looking for ways make their food...
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10 Ways Your First Backpacking Trip will Better Prepare you for Bugging Out
There are two recurring themes we have in prepping and survival blogs around preparing for disasters of any type. The first is the need to...
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How to Build an Evaporative Cooler – Grid Down Air Conditioning
How to build a low-cost 12 volt evaporative cooler. My husband and I built two swamp coolers that we use to air condition our tent...
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Scraping the Bottom of the Oil Barrel
In late 2009 my boss plunked a book with a hazard-yellow cover on my desk and said, “This might interest you.” I didn’t know it...
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Grow Food All Year Long: Recycled Patio Door Greenhouse Project
In the 1960s, my father spit out the word “plastic” as if it were poison. To him, anything made of a substance other than real...
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Gunslinger Quick-Draw Hand Well Pump – Grid down Backup
As part of my preps, water is high on the list of items I strive to ensure I have options and redundancy for. We have...
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One Size Doesn’t fit all when it comes to Prepper Plans
When we are planning for our family’s safety, preppers employ a wide spectrum of ideas, plans and approaches to getting their family out of danger...
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How to Build a Pickup Truck Sleeping Platform
Building a pickup truck sleeping platform can be very beneficial for, not only camping, but for use as a bug out vehicle. For those who...
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DIY Water Well in a Day
For anyone lucky enough to have a shallow water table without bedrock, a do-it-yourself driven well saves thousands of dollars compared to having a bored...
